So-Cal Speed Shop The Fast Tale of the California Racers who Made Hot Rod History

Christensen, Mark with a Foreword by Alex Xydias and Epilogue by Tony Thacker

ISBN 10: 0760322635 / ISBN 13: 9780760322635

Published by St. Paul, MN: Motorbooks, 2005, 2005

About this Item

First edition; square small 4to.; cloth covered boards with illustrated endpapers, hardcover; 192 pages; black and white and color photographic illustrations; a very small hole on bottom board edge else very good in a very good dust jacket.

Seller Inventory # 49861

Bibliographic Details

• Title: So-Cal Speed Shop The Fast Tale of the California Racers who Made Hot Rod History
• Publisher: St. Paul, MN: Motorbooks, 2005
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0760322635
• ISBN 13: 9780760322635
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
  • Automobiles

About this title

Synopsis

The ability of U.S. car enthusiasts to satisfy their need for speed changed dramatically in the late 1940s as car-crazy veterans returned home from World War II with formal mechanical training, courtesy of Uncle Sam. This is the story of how one such veteran, an ex-B-17 airman named Alex Xydias, established the SO-CAL Speed Shop and helped transform hot rodding from a scruffy, underground, outlaw sport into a defining part of postwar American culture.

About the Author

Mark Christensen has written several books, including The Sweeps: Behind the Scenes in Network TV and Build the Perfect Beast, as well as two novels, Mortal Belladaywic and Aloha. He is a former media columnist for Rolling Stone and his feature stories have appeared in The Los Angeles Times Sunday Magazine, Playboy, and Wired. Christensen lives in Long Beach, California, near the heart of the original hot rod movement.